Background Childhood maltreatment is the most important preventable cause of
psychopathology accounting for about 45% of the population attributable risk for childhood …

Fear memory is the best-studied form of memory. It was thoroughly investigated in the past
60 years mostly using two classical conditioning procedures (contextual fear conditioning …

Objective Childhood maltreatment acts as a severe stressor that produces a cascade of
physiological and neurobiological changes that lead to enduring alterations in brain …

Childhood trauma has been associated with long term effects on prefrontal-limbic grey
matter. A literature search was conducted to identify structural magnetic resonance imaging …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition associated with mild to
moderate cognitive impairment and with a prevalence rate of up to 22% in veterans. This …

We present new empirical data and meta-analytic evidence for the association of childhood
maltreatment with reduced hippocampal volume. In Study 1, we examined the effects of …

Despite mounting reports about the negative effects of chronic occupational stress on
cognitive functions, it is still uncertain whether and how this type of stress is associated with …

The hippocampus is a particularly interesting target for neuroscience research studies due
to its essential role within the human brain. In large human cohort studies, bilateral …

The most prevalent mental disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, are associated with both
functional and morphological brain changes that commonly involve the 'fear …

Context A multiwave longitudinal neuroimaging study in a cohort of direct survivors of a
South Korean subway disaster, most of whom recovered from posttraumatic stress disorder …